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Digital Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the…
- Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
- As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which…
- Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to…
- Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,…
- Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the…
- Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making…
- If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
- In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current…
- In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,…
- Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,…
- Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways…
- The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over…
- The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every…
- The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived…
- When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices…
More Digital Quotes
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- Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed… — Nolan Bushnell
- Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and… — Nicolas Cage
- I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but… — Margaret Cho
- If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery. — John Maeda
- The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we… — Carlos Slim
- The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest